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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...
Between 540 and 542 he converted to Christianity. [55] Razhden the Protomartyr — was a 5th-century Persian nobleman in the service of the Georgian king Vakhtang I of Iberia and a convert to Christianity who was executed by the Sassanid military in Iberia. [56] Sagdukht — was a 5th-century queen consort of Iberia. [57]
Conversion to Christianity is the religious conversion of a previously non-Christian person that brings about changes in what sociologists refer to as the convert's "root reality" including their social behaviors, thinking and ethics. The sociology of religion indicates religious conversion was an important factor in the emergence of ...
In the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch) and Saul. — Acts 13:1, NIV The account in Acts 13 states that the group of prophets and teachers prayed and fasted , and were inspired to commission Barnabas and Paul to undertake ...
Socrates Scholasticus Church History of 305-438; Sozomen Church History of 323-425; 451 Council of Chalcedon, 4th ecumenical, declared Jesus is a Hypostatic Union: both human and divine in one (Chalcedonian Creed), rejected by Oriental Orthodoxy; 455 Sack of Rome by the Vandals.
Matthew – a former tax collector (Levi) who was called by Jesus to be one of the Twelve Apostles; Mark – a follower of Peter and so an "apostolic man" Luke – a doctor who wrote what is now the book of Luke to Theophilus. Also known to have written the book of Acts (or Acts of the Apostles) and to have been a close friend of Paul of Tarsus
The Church Fathers are the early and influential Christian theologians and writers, particularly those of the first five centuries of Christian history. The earliest Church Fathers, within two generations of the Twelve Apostles of Christ, are usually called Apostolic Fathers for reportedly knowing and studying under the apostles personally.
Bart D. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity began as a ...